Resultat för "Shilling" i Science fiction

Shilling and Florin are back in the game, and playing it like never before…Charles Shilling tends to think of the government as the enemy. His anarchic politics have always leant toward the 'burn it all down' approach. Except now he has skin in the game. He has friends in high places... and they need him. What starts as a simple blackmail scheme soon turns deadly, and Charlie isn't one to leave his friends in the cold. Amelia Florin is desperately worried about her father, and now his chance to retire is sinking into muddy waters.

Pete signed up to have his brain diced so he could become a better person. Now he lives in the virtual reality realm of Talespace, where he beta-tests everything from new game rules to mental upgrades to robots that will let his AI boss help people in the real world. As brain-uploading technology starts to become more than a toy for the rich, the now-divided America isn't the only place where Talespace's new society, buggy as it is, is badly needed. Will Pete's new home become an irrelevant gamer heaven, or a force for liberty?